Author: Birket Foster; Tom Taylor
Title: Birket Foster&Apos;S Pictures of English Landscape
Description: London, George Routledge and Sons, 1881. Vellum. Myles Birket Foster's picturesque ode to English rural scenes, the limited edition engraved on India proof paper by the Brother Dalziels. A beautiful collection of Myles Birket Foster's illustrations of English landscapes. Limited edition to one-thousand copies engraved on India Proof Paper, the present copy number eight-hundred-and-four. Pictures engraved by the celebrated Brothers Dalziel. Charming celebration of rural scenery, each illustration accompanied with lovely verses by Tom Taylor. Collated, complete with thirty full page plates. Myles Birket Foster was a famous Victorian illustrator and watercolourist.Featuring a preface to the India Proof edition and to the original edition dated 1862. In the original publisher's full vellum binding with decorative gilt tooling to boards and spine. Externally sound with shelf wear, minor chipping to head of spine, light spotting and marks to boards and spine, as usual. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Very Good . Ill.: Birket Foster; Brothers Dalziel. Very Good .

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